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Innovate Trust

Insight by Innovate Trust is a free to use community app developed specifically for people with disabilities. The app provides 30 or more live activities per week from Tai Chi, Yoga, Music Classes, Sign Classes and more.

Community Impact Award supported by Good Things Foundation logo

FoodDrop

Food Drop is a tech platform that connects unsold food to local charities. The Food Drop platform monitors surplus food levels in stores, and algorithmically allocates collections to local charities. Charity collections are coordinated via WhatsApp using Melony, an AI-powered chatbot, that utilises Natural Language Processing.

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Frog Systems

In any ‘normal’ year it is estimated that one in six workers will experience a mental health problem at any one time. The effects of Covid will likely exacerbate this … Read more

Workplace Inclusion Award sponsored by Microsoft

Colorintech

Colorintech is helping advance the inclusion in tech from the start of someone’s tech journey. Colorcode is an event for Year 11 & Sixth Form students interested in tech.

Workplace Inclusion Award sponsored by Microsoft

Person Centered Software

Jonathan Papworth and his brother Simon founded Person Centred Software in May 2013 as the first company in the UK to launch a mobile system to evidence care digitally within care homes and improve the quality of care for residents. To date, over 150,000 carers and nurses in the UK are trained on using Mobile Care Monitoring, evidencing 3 million care notes a day.

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Children on the Edge

Children on the Edge are pioneering digital learning to deliver meaningful education for 7,500 Rohingya refugee students and 1,400 slum dwelling children. The system not only brings learning alive and addresses the current language barrier, but introduces knowledge and experience beyond the camps and slum areas.

Digital Volunteer Award sponsored by Do IT logo

Joanna Allen

Joanna Allen has been nominated for the Digital Volunteer Award as she carries out many roles within the Scottish Tech Army, managing projects and is a key liaison person between teams within the Scottish Tech Army. Joanna is one of the ‘first responders’ to any requests that come from organisations looking for technical support during Covid-19.

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Marc Sloan

Marc Sloan built code4covid, a community of technologists to help not for profits with their tech needs. It now has over 1500 volunteers from all over the world who have been matched to over 200 projects, including charities such as Mencap and Crisis.

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Elemental

Elemental is an award winning company that helps stakeholders in population health management to focus on the wider determinants of health: income, wealth, housing, education, transport, leisure, and supports the adoption of health behaviours and lifestyles: smoking, diet, drinking, exercise.

Amy

Amy is a device that acts like a very open, happy friend for older and disabled people to speak to and have a conversation with. It remembers what the person has said, but keeps it closed circuit, so no one else can access their personal data or secrets.

Greg Ball

I initially started volunteering at the Clarion Futures Jobs Club as a way to begin working again while recovering from mental health issues. There, for the first time in my … Read more

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Fall Alert

My name is Freddie Howells; I’m 14 years old and I’m from South Wales. My project is called Fall Alert and is designed to help elderly people, particularly those with … Read more

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